From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 19:15:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA21904 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 19:15:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA21899 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 19:15:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA08153; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 19:15:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 19:15:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Softweyr LLC cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.6 Install question (resend) In-Reply-To: <199701090056.RAA10596@xmission.xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Softweyr LLC wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, David Lewis wrote: > % Turns out that the kernel install doesn't like /sbin to not be loading on > % the / partition. I was attempting to install /sbin on its own partition. > % > % Once I backed out of this and installed /sbin under /, the problem was > % resolved (after much irritation and headache). > > Doug White responded: > > So you created a mountpoint /sbin? > > > > How odd... I'll keep that for future reference. > > OTTMCO. /sbin is, literally, "standalone bin;" it is needed to bring > the system up. Everything needed to bring the system up must be in the > root filesystem. I thought it was "Superuser BINaries". (see /usr/sbin) hier(7) reports: /sbin/ system programs and administration utilities fundamental to both single-user and multi-user environments or, for /usr/sbin: sbin/ system daemons & system utilities (executed by users) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major